The Underground City

[rich]

I am enjoying HL Humes' The Underground City, re-issued this month by
Random House

pretty impressed by the scope of Humes's vision and diverse
characterizations, including not only the already dramatic tale of the
French Resistance but the city of Paris itself, it's cold, wet
streets, gray white skies, and idling jet black motorcars

i had just watched Army of Shadows (though the movie does not focus on
Paris exclusively) and that is a nice primer for delving into Hume's
long novel

'Some critics belonging to a younger generation have discerned in Mr.
Humes's behavior and beliefs the seeds of the '60s and '70s
counterculture. One, Alan Cheuse, also finds in Mr. Humes's writing
early intimations of what he has called the "paranoiac fiction" of
Thomas Pynchon.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/13/books/13hume.html

Rich